Bill Bryson Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.

  Bill Bryson

  Home, Thinking, Average

• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

• The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

  Bill Bryson

  Stars, Distance, Law

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Oct 14, 2012

• I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Towers, Wonder

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.306, Random House

• A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Age, Leisure

• Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Age, Nylon

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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